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I. Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Nature of Environmental Literature
II. Major Figures and Historical Patterns in Environmental Literature (Class Will Include 2 or More)
A. The pastoral tradition in Greek and Western romantic literature
B. Early American literature: Descriptions of nature and writing about regions in the 17th- and 18th- centuries
C. 20th-century renaissance of American environmental nonfiction
D. Major contributions of women to American environmental literature
E. Indigenous and cultural conceptions of the environment and its relation to people
III. Similarities and Differences in the Ways in Which Literary Works of Different Cultures have Imagined the Human Relationship to the Environment
A. Oral versus written literary traditions
B. Native American versus Western creation stories
C. Conceptions of place in indigenous and Western cultures
D. Cultural and ecological perspectives on an "ethical" relationship to the land
E. Ways in which the arts in general and texts in particular both shape and express values and attitudes towards the natural world
F. Ways in which texts can provoke environmental reflection and practice restorationism
G. Art, advocacy, and activism
IV. Critical Approaches to Environmental Literature (Class Will Include 2 or More)
A. Ecocriticism
B. Ethnic studies and postcolonial criticism
C. Gender studies and queer theory
D. Cultural studies
E. Literary theory
V. Climate Change and Literature at the Intersections of Policy, Advocacy, Science, and Community
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1. Weekly reading assignments (roughly 40-60 pages per week), such as:
A. Major works of environmental literature, including poetry
B. Essays on environmental literature as a genre
C. Essays offering different cultural perspectives on the environment
D. Essays on literary criticism and/or theory
2. Low-stakes writing assignments, such as reading journals and environmental literature
3. Formal writing from various essay genres (e.g. analytical, personal, critical, and research) in response to class texts
4. Quizzes (0-18)
5. Exam(s)
6. Group or individual presentation(s) focused on, for example, particular authors, time periods or themes (optional)
7. Field trips to explore a local ecosystem (optional)
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Night is a Sharkskin Drum. Trask, Haunani-Kay. University of Hawaii Press. 2002 (classic).
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So Far From God. Castillo, Ana. W. W. Norton and Company. 2005 (classic).
Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial. Wald, Sarah D. Temple University Press. 2019.
Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources. Anderson, M Kat. University of California Press. 2013 (classic).
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